New council leaders have delivered just 14.5% of their promised social housing target after taking power last year. It comes as plans put in place by the new administration at Dover District Council to address the issue in its first 12 months have been slammed as “a complete failure”. But senior councillors insist they are “serious about tackling council housing” with hundreds of homes in the works which will take time to overturn the “low base” inherited from the previous administration. Opposition Conservative members have now slated the new Labour-led authority’s first year after council pa…
